Why wars happen and why they are hard to stop; the UN and NATO, sentence 3

Most quarrels are settled by talking, deals and courts; war comes when talking fails or one side decides to use force.

Who acts: war, one side · What happens: settle, talk, come, fail, decide, use · To what, where: Most quarrels, force

This is a sentence of the lesson «Why wars happen and why they are hard to stop; the UN and NATO» of the politics course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (war, one side), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 quarrels	amod
2	quarrels	quarrel	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 settled	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 settled	aux:pass
4	settled	settle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	SCONJ	_	6 talking	mark
6	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 settled	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 deals	punct
8	deals	deal	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 talking	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 courts	cc
10	courts	court	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 deals	conj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 comes	punct
12	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 comes	nsubj
13	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 settled	parataxis
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 fails	advmod
15	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 fails	nsubj
16	fails	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 comes	advcl
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 decides	cc
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 side	nummod
19	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 decides	nsubj
20	decides	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 fails	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 use	mark
22	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 decides	xcomp
23	force	force	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 use	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 settled	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	settle	present · passive		Most quarrels	vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: subject=Location
2	talk	gerund			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	come	present	war		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	talk	gerund			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	fail	present			vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	decide	present	one side		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	use not said to happen	to-infinitive	one side not said here	force	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent force=Patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:politics:023-why-wars-happen-the-un-and-nato.lesson:3.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×4. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the release 0.4.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/23-why-wars-happen-the-un-and-nato/3/